How To Install daxctl-libs on CentOS 8

daxctl-libs is Management library for “Device DAX” devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl-libs on CentOS 8.

What is `daxctl-libs`

Device DAX is a facility for establishing DAX mappings of performance / feature-differentiated memory. daxctl-libs provides an enumeration / control API for these devices. daxctl-libs 71.1 2.el8 x86_64 41 k ndctl-71.1-2.el8.src.rpm baseos Management library for “Device DAX” devices https LGPLv2 Device DAX is a facility for establishing DAX mappings of performance / feature-differentiated memory. daxctl-libs provides an enumeration / control API for these devices.

We can use yum or dnf to install daxctl-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install daxctl-libs.

Install daxctl-libs on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install daxctl-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install daxctl-libs

Install daxctl-libs on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install daxctl-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install daxctl-libs

How To Uninstall daxctl-libs on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the daxctl-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove daxctl-libs

daxctl-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/a3c0812f28598c507d6944ea0310176cca928a
/usr/lib/libdaxctl.so.1
/usr/lib/libdaxctl.so.1.5.0
/usr/share/doc/daxctl-libs
/usr/share/doc/daxctl-libs/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs/CC0-1.0
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs/LGPL-2.1
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs/MIT
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/95d8e8c31c5b5bed029247b07a96c75972da58
/usr/lib64/libdaxctl.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdaxctl.so.1.5.0
/usr/share/doc/daxctl-libs
/usr/share/doc/daxctl-libs/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs/CC0-1.0
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs/LGPL-2.1
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs/MIT

References

[daxctl-libs website](https://github.com/pmem/ndctl https://github.com/pmem/ndctl)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.